Curtain-fixture.



A. C. BADER.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

Patented May 30,1916.

AUGUST C. RAIDER, OF READING, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Maasai.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 39, 1916.

Application filed etober 10, 1914. Serial No. 866,168.

To all whom may concern 4 Be it known that I, AUGUST C. BADER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Curtain-Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain fixtures and is more particularly designed as an improvement upon the structure shown, for example, in my Patent No. 1,113,689, dated October 13, 1914.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a curtain fixture having guide engaging means which presents an extensive flat surface to the guide so that, when once forced into engagement with the guide, it will adhere thereto in spite of excessive vibration or swaying of the car and until the fixture is actuated positively to release the curtain.

A further object is to provide a guide engaging element of novel form having means whereby the same is capable of shifting radially in any direction so as to prevent it from creeping upwardly after it has once been adjusted to a desired position.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings z-Figure 1 is an elevation of a fixture embodying the present improvements, a part thereof being broken away and the guides being shown in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section through the fixture. Fig. 3 is a plan View.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a tube for engagement with one end of a shade S, each end of this tube being engaged by a screw threaded stem 2 having spaced ears 3 disposed in parallel relation and which ears are broadened toward their free ends. A retaining pin 4 connects the middle portions of the` ears of each pair and extends through an opening 5 formed within a triangular shoe 6 having a fiat guide engaging face 7 and inwardly converging flat faces 8. Springs 9 are secured within grooves 10 formed within each stem and between the ears and these springs bear upon the inwardly converging faces 8 of the shoe 6 so as thus to hold the shoe normally centered as shown in Fig. 2 with the innermost portion of the wall of opening 5 pressing outwardly against the retaining pin 4.

It will be apparent that when a lixture such as described is in position between guides G, the springs 9, by bearing upon the faces 8 of the shoes 6 will press the shoes outwardly so as to cause the outer flat faces 7 thereof to bind against the guides G. While the shoes are thus in engagement with the guides, they are still out of contact with the pins 4 and should the curtain be vibrated or jolted as a result of the movement of the car or other vehicle to which it is connected, the said pins 4 and the parts connected thereto would be free to move either upwardly, downwardly, or toward or from the guides G without correspondingly shifting the shoes 6 and in every instance springs 9 would operate to return the shade and parts carried thereby in the centered positions normally assumed thereby with the pins 4 within the openings 5.

A fixture utilizing an angular shoe such as described but which is capable of movement in any direction upwardly, downwardly, or toward or from the guide, has been found superior to a guide engaging roller having the same characteristics, for the reason that as it presents a broader surface to the guide, there is less danger of the shoe slipping along the guide.

It will be noted that the springs 9 engage the inwardly converging faces 8 at points adjacent the ends of the guide engaging face 7 so that the tendency of the shoe to rock or tilt out of engagement with the guide is reduced to the minimum.

What is claimed is In a curtain fixture, the combination with a supporting structure including a retaining pin, of a triangular shoe having inwardly converging faces and a fiat guide engaging outer face, said shoe being mounted upon and adapted to shift radially relative to the pin in any direction, and yielding In testimony that I claim the fore oing means engaging the inwardly converging as my own, I have hereto aixed my slgna- 10 faces of the vshoe at points adjacent the ends ture in the presence of two witnesses.

of the guide engaging face for pressing said shoe outwardly normally against the pin, f AUGUST C' BADER said yielding means being adapted to resist Witnesses: upward, downward and inward movement WILLIAM H. JENKS, of the shoe relative to the pin. M. MUNDERHILL.

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